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R. B. CARSON. DRESS.

APPLICATION FI LED AUG-B. l9l6.

1,261,360 Patented Apr. 2,1918,

RUTH BUTTS CARSON OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

DRESS.

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Specification of Letters Patent;

Patented Apr. 2, 4918..

Application filed August 8, 1916. Serial No. 113,705.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the cityof Boston, State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dresses, of which the following is a full and correct specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a dress which can be made out of a single piece of material, so that it can be quickly, cheaply and conveniently manufactured, and for which a very simple pattern can be used for the convenience of home dressmakers.

Another object of my invention is to so make the said dress that it shall have a neat and pleasing appearance as if it had been made in the present manner now customary.

Further objects of my invention will be set forth in the following drawings and description and will then be pointed out in the claims.

An embodiment of my invention is shown in the following drawings and description, in which Figure 1 dress.

Fig. 2 is a view of ti... single piece of goods from which the dress is constructed.

ig. 3 is a cross section through the seam between the sleeve and the body of the garment.

Fig. 4 is a side-view of another embodiment of my invention.

As shown in Fig. 2, the garment is composed preferably of a single piece of cloth divided into two identical portions along the horizontal line or fold 3. These portions 4 and 5 of the said single piece of cloth are provided respectively with pocket portions 6, 7 and 8 and with girdle or belt portions 9, 10, 11 and 12. This piece of cloth is provided with a central orifice 14 for the head and neck, which can be made of any suitable size and if necessary may be prolonged and provided with suitable snap fasteners, hooks and eyes, or the like, for the accommodation of stout persons. These hooks and fasteners and the like are not shown, as they are in themselves old and well known means and form no art of my invention.

In making up this garment, the back 5 having slits 15, 16, 17 and 18, is folded along the median line 3 until the borders of the front 4 and the back 5 substantially coincide. The pocket portion 8 is then thrust through th slit 17 so that it is now adjacent to the bazk 5 of the garment, when, by suitably RUTH Brrr'rs CARSON,

is a face view of my sewin this pocket portion 8 upon the back 5 of t e garment, a back pocket can be provided and, similarly, by folding the front pocket portions 8, 6 and 7 upon the front of the garment and thensewing them on to the front, front pockets can be made, as can be seen in Fig. 1. In the same manner the belt portions 11 and 12 can be thrust through the slits l7 and 18 and by suitable attachments portion 11 canbe attached upon the back of the garment and the portions 9 and can be folded over and sewed upon the front of the garment so as to give an imitation of the belt or girdle portion of a garment, which may be placed as high or as low as may be desired.

As shown in Fig. 2, the back pocket on one side of the garment may be omitted and only a front pocket on one side provided, and likewise only a back pocket may be provided on a given side of the garment, and the number of pockets varied as desired.

In order to give a neat and artistic appearance to the sleeve portions 19 of the garment, which are also folded along the median line 3 and are to be sewed together, I provide a neat tuck at the junction of the sleeve with the body of the garment. One or more lines of stitching are run between the lines 20 and 21, as is further illustrated in Fig. 3, leaving a tuck or fold 24, which imitates and gives the same eflect as the present separate sleeve sewed on to a garment.

f necessary, I can provide a suitable cord or the like in this tuck 24 so as to give the impression of fullness or roundness.

While I have illustrated an effective embodiment of my invention, I do not desire to limit it to any particular shape or appearance, and additional ornamental details may be added and varied according to taste.

Thus in Fig. 4, in which 26 represents the seam, the pocket portions 27, 28, and belt portions 29, 30, integral with the garment, are simply laid back upon the. body of the garment, and fastened thereto.

The single piece of cloth from which the arment is made may be assembled by sewing together smaller pieces, to secure a startin piece of suflicient size.

1. A garment made of a single piece of cloth folded into two identical halves along a median horizontal line, the said garment having symmetrically disposed belt portlons onboth sides of said halves, the material adjacent the belt portions ,of one of said halves having slits on eac side through which both of the corresponding belt portions on each side of the other of said halves can be drawn, when the garment is folded.

2. A arment made of a single piece of material folded along the median line at right angles to the axis thereof, one of the halves of said garment having a pocket portion projecting therefrom.

3. A garment made of a single piece of material folded. along the median line at right angles to the axis thereof, said garment having symmetrically disposed pocket portions on the respective halves thereof, the pocket portions of one of said halves having slits adjacent thereto through which the pocket portions of the other of said halves can be drawn, when the garment is folded.

menace a. In a garment made of-a single piece of material folded along the median line at right angles to the axis thereof, sleeve portions integral therewith and folded along the said median line, and a tuck intermediate said sleeve portions and the body portion of said garment, the said tuck comprising a fold of the said piece of material connected by stitching, the said fold being located at the said junction between the said sleeve portions In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

RUTH BUTTS CARSON.

Witnesses Mon M. WEINBERG, A. Y. OOUGAN.

and the said body portion. 

